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Durham celebrates first same-sex marriages became legal in North Carolina. The move sparked celebration across the state, more than two years after Amendment One defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. The ruling followed a decision issued in July Emma Baccellieri by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, News Editor stating that Virginia’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional—meaning that the same would Last month, Randy Cahoon and Russell hold for the gay marriage bans of other states Tingle decided they had waited for marriage in the fourth circuit, including North Carolilong enough. After 33 years together, the Dur- na, South Carolina and West Virginia. The Suham couple planned to preme Court declined to wed in Washington, D.C., review the case last week, e wanted to do it which has allowed sameopening the door for spenow, before anysex marriages since 2009. cific cases across the circuit At the last minute, one in the legislature some- to officially strike down however, the pair changed the states’ respective laws how changed their mind. their minds—deciding against same-sex marriage. that they would wait until In North Carolina, — Randy Cahoon Amendment same-sex marriage was One was oflegal in their home state of North Carolina. ficially struck down just after 5:30 p.m. Friday. “We thought it would be a long wait,” The first same-sex marriage licenses in the Cahoon said with a smile. “But it was only a state were offered that evening, but most counmonth.” ties—including Durham—had already closed Cahoon and Tingle were among the first their register of deeds office for the weekend same-sex couples to be married in Durham and began offering licenses Monday morning. County, holding a small ceremony on the Old Right from the start, the Durham office Courthouse steps just after receiving their mar- was busy processing license applications—and riage license. They were one of more than a watching the weddings of couples who simply dozen couples who wed in the courthouse did not want to wait any longer, said Register of Monday—the first full day that North Carolina Deeds Willie Covington. issued same-sex marriage licenses. “It was real busy this morning,” Covington After a federal judge struck down Amend- said. “There was a crowd waiting for us.” ment One—the state’s gay marriage ban—late See Marriage on Page 3 Friday afternoon, same-sex marriages officially

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Emma Baccellieri | The Chronicle After a federal judge struck down Amendment One, Nancy Blood and Catchy Chandler, pictured above, became one of the first same-sex couples to be married in Durham County.

DKU officially opens first campus building Until recently, DKU students and faculty have been living and attending class in a hotel Emma Baccellieri News Editor More than a month after Duke Kunshan University began classes, the school is finaly opening its doors opening a new set of doors—transitioning from its current headquarters at a nearby hotel to the physical campus. Construction on DKU’s six buildings has been ongoing since 2010, but the campus was not yet ready when classes began this August. After spending the first two months of school both living and attending class in a Kunshan hotel, students and faculty are now in the process of moving onto campus—with the school’s Conference Center set to serve as residence space, classrooms and a library

as construction continues on other buildings. Faculty have begun moving their offices onto campus, and classes will transition from the hotel to the Conference Center after students finish taking exams this month, said Nora Bynum, vice provost for DKU and China affairs. “Moving into the campus buildings has already started, with staff already in place and the rest of the move to be completed later this month,” she wrote in an email Tuesday. The Conference Center and Services Center will be the first two buildings cleared for move-in, with the Academic Center and two other buildings to be finished later this Fall. Construction on the campus has faced several obstacles over the years—including lengthy delays, management issues and poor weather. In May, Bynum told The Chronicle that the Conference Center would likely be the only building open when students arrived in August and would provide the school’s classroom space, with students and faculty commuting from the hotel. But although overall

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building construction was complete, systems testing and “final touch-ups” had to be performed before classes could begin in the Center—meaning that the Swiss-managed Swissotel, an international chain with a Kunshan location, provided both housing and academic space for the school’s opening months. Bynum presented an update on DKU to the Arts and Sciences Council last week, noting both successes and challenges the school has experienced in its first weeks. Included was an overview of Duke’s financial participation in the campus. Duke contributed $4 million to DKU in its start-up phase, Bynum said at the Council meeting, and has invested an additional $12.9 million in facilities and related costs. For the 2015-16 fiscal year, Duke has budgeted $10.8 million. The funding from Duke has come from central strategic funds, facilities reserves and gifts. Duke’s undergraduate and graduate schools bear no direct cost for DKU, and all schools with DKU programs have a financial See Kunshan on Page 4

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Construction ramps up for Rubenstein and Bostock Renovations continue to be on track, with Bostock set to be completed in November and Rubenstein in July Kali Shulklapper University Editor Construction on the Rubenstein and Bostock Libraries is in full force and on schedule. As the first floor of Bostock transforms into an interdisciplinary research space—recently named The Edge—the work on Rubenstein focuses on ceiling framing, the removal of scaffolding in the Gothic Reading Room and the installation of roof tiles, panels and windows. Renovations in both libraries are on track with the planned timeline, said Aaron Welborn, director of communications for Duke University Libraries. “We expect that the Rubenstein Library will be able to start moving staff and collections back into the building around July of next summer,” Welborn said. The main change to Bostock is the creation of project rooms, designed to be dedicated spaces for different research groups. Teams working on prolonged projects will be able to reserve the rooms for weeks, a semester or a whole year, Wellborn said. The rooms are designed to serve as a convenient space with access to both technology and library staff. “They’re meant to be somewhat like incubator spaces for different project teams— so they can meet centrally and benefit from each other’s expertise,” Welborn said. The Edge will also feature regular group study rooms and a large open space for individual study. The group study rooms will be similar to those in the Link, which all students can use for an allotted amount of time when available. To reserve rooms, students will be able to use iPads mounted on the walls. Welborn added that the rooms will have lockable storage units, allowing students and project teams to lock up their belongings and unpack them at their next scheduled meeting time. The Edge will also feature keypad-operated

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lockers with electrical outlets, enabling students to charge their phones while they take a break. All items on first floor of Bostock—including the desks, filing cabinets and periodicals—have been cleared. They are being moved to the help desk closer to the entrance, creating more curved spaces and an interesting geometrical flow, Welborn added. “They’ve reconfigured the space and put up new walls that divide the space in a different way than it was before,” he said. Most of the construction in Bostock will be done in ear-

ly November, Welborn said, ahead of The Edge’s official opening in January. Facilities staff are currently developing a proposal to be sent out this month asking project teams how they will use the space. Welborn said the proposal asks if they would mind sharing their research—possibly in the form of a presentation—in order to promote a more collaborative environment. “We want to make the research process more transparent so people can learn from one another,” he said.

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Editor’s Note: Witness to new wedding bells Downtown Durham’s Old Courthouse was a place of unity Monday—not only for couples joining one another in marriage, but also for bystanders cheering at the weddings of strangers and clergy officiating ceremonies for people they had never met. And in a strange but touching twist of fate, I found myself stepping out of my role as a reporter to join in the celebration. I spent the day at the Durham County register of deeds, interviewing couples who were taking advantage of North Carolina’s first day offering same-sex marriage licenses. I watched as people who had been together for decades filled out their applications—some with family and friends in tow, some sharing the special moment as a couple; some with plans for grand weddings in the coming weeks, some with plans to get married in a magistrate’s office down the hall. As I walked out of the building at the end of the afternoon, I saw one last couple leaving with marriage license in hand—Cathy Chandler and Nancy Blood, Durham residents who have been together for 38 years. I told them I was a reporter and asked if I could interview them. They told me they needed a legal witness for their wedding on the courthouse steps and asked if I could step in. And despite everything I know about staying on the sidelines—about remembering my place as a reporter, about being the byline and keeping out of the story—I said yes.

I joined them outside, along with a Presbyterian minister who had spent the day officiating weddings for those who had just received their marriage licenses. I listened to Chandler and Blood talk about their partnership, and I heard the minister speak about the strength of their love and the joyousness of the day. When she asked me if I would give my support to my “new friends” as they entered marriage, I said that I would. And after Chandler and Blood embraced and the marriage was declared official, I signed my name below theirs on the legal certificate. The pair hadn’t always hoped for a wedding, they said. As feminists, they were wary about the connotations of marriage as an institution, Chandler noted—so although they were pleased by the statement made when a federal judge struck down North Carolina’s gay marriage ban Friday, they didn’t think a wedding was in their future. “Over the weekend, we hadn’t really considered it,” Blood said. “But we woke up this morning, thinking—this is a really historic day. Why not? It was just about seizing the day.” Historic as the day was, there was also something beautifully ordinary about it— dozens of regular people sharing their everyday love stories, making their personal promises to each other legal. It was an unexpected way to end my day of reporting, but it was worth coming off the sidelines for. Emma Baccellieri is the News Editor of The Chronicle and wrote “Durham celebrates first same-sex marriages” in today’s edition.

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On a typical day, the office grants between 12 and 15 marriage licenses. Monday, Covington estimated that the office granted at least 50. Many couples obtained their marriage licenses Monday with plans for a formal wedding in the future, but more than a dozen chose to get married right away. “The biggest reason we did it fast was because of the kids,” said Christy Moore, who has two children with her partner, Kathleen Moore. The two have been together for a decade and had a formal commitment ceremony six years ago, but marriage offered a chance to make legal matters—such as parenthood and owning a house together— less complicated, Christy Moore said. For others, the decision for a Monday wedding was an opportunity to seize marriage right away, in the event that the decision was reversed. “We wanted to do it now, before anyone in the legislature somehow changed their mind,” Cahoon explained. He and Tingle dressed in matching yellow shirts, holding yellow flowers as they were married by Presbyterian minister Jeanette Stokes outside the courthouse. Stokes was one of several local clergy who came to the courthouse to perform weddings for any couple who was interested. “A Presbyterian minister, my mother will be so happy,” Cahoon joked. For Stokes, officiating the marriages was truly a labor of love—a chance to finally perform legal marriages for same-sex couples, decades after she began officiating same-sex commitment ceremonies. “I’ve been working on this fight for 35

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years, in the church and in the community,” Stokes said. “It’s just tremendous.” Although there were reports of protestors outside some county courthouses across the state—and in at least one case in Pasquotank County, a magistrate refused to perform a civil ceremony for a same-sex couple—the scene in downtown Durham was largely a joyous one. Couples celebrated each other’s weddings, with passersby stopping to watch and cheer. “It’s just such a great group of people,” Tingle said. Logistically, the day was somewhat of a challenge, Covington said—with the register of deeds receiving its first gender-neutral license forms late Sunday night, and no distinct guidelines for how to proceed under the new ruling. But there were no major issues and all in all, the day was a happy one, he said. “I really think it went well,” Covington said. “It’s been a good day.”

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continued from page 1 guarantee from the provost’s office absolving them of any possible financial responsibility, Bynum said. Even with the campus just beginning its first phase, administrators are thinking of what will follow, Bynum noted. DKU’s second phase will see the launch of an undergraduate degree program, and planning for a liberal arts experience in China presents a unique set of challenges. Bynum is currently abroad with other members of Duke’s Liberal Arts in China committee, touring universities in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing that have been developing liberal arts models. The topic of academic freedom as it relates to the liberal arts in China was raised by faculty at the Arts and Science meeting, but Bynum said that no problems have arisen at DKU thus far. “Academic freedom is a perpetual concern in China,” Bynum said. “We haven’t had any issues on campus, but we are

certainly alert and we certainly spend time talking with other joint venture universities.” Bynum also announced the hiring of DKU’s first vice-chancellor of academic affairs Thursday—Haiyan Gao, physics department chair and Henry Newsom professor of physics. Gao, who is a Shanghai native and lived in Kunshan as a child, has served as chair of Duke’s China Faculty Council in the past. DKU has different resources than Duke and presents different challenges and opportunities, Gao said, but she expressed excitement for the chance to embark on something new and unique. “Duke is a well-established and well-known university and has many programs for students to choose from. DKU is brand-new and currently has a few graduate degree programs and undergraduate global semester program only,” Gao wrote in an email Monday. “As we are building up more graduate degree programs, and also developing undergraduate degree program for DKU phase 2, this situation will continue to improve. In the short term, we need to find the best match between the interests of talented students and what DKU can offer.”

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there’s never been any sort of pressure or anything from him. He’s been there because his expertise is very valuable for my game and I just use that, but other than that he’s just been a normal dad and been engaged in my soccer.” Fjortoft spent the past eight years playing with the renowned Baerum Sportsklubb of Adeccoligaen, finally moving up to the senior U19 team in 2011 following five years on the junior teams. After being named captain prior to the 2013 season, Fjortoft led the squad to a Second Division championship—its second in three years— and a promotion to the Norwegian First Divison. At that point, Fjortoft—who turned 20 in January and had exhausted his eligibility for Baerum— knew it was time for another chapter in his life. He hired an agent—a common practice for Norwegian players— to compose a highlight tape and get him on the radar of college coaches. Duke head coach John Kerr came across Fjortoft’s video, and was intrigued enough to give Markus a more in-depth look. He traveled to Spain to see Fjortoft play in person and gauge the level of competition he faced with Baerum, and was sufficiently impressed with what he saw to offer him a spot on the Duke roster. “I went to see him play in Europe last spring,” Kerr said. “I was able to see him in-person and that sold me on his ability to come over here and play in the ACC. After seeing his transcript, I knew he was an excellent student as well. So he kind of ticked off a lot of boxes and he’s very interested in every dynamic of the game and has a lot of passion for it.”

Duke is used to Homecoming weekend coming more than once per year. In addition to their annual home game at Wallace Wade Stadium in front of throngs of alumni, the Blue Devils have seen their fair share of homecoming games on the road. It’s no coincidence—homecoming weekend is typically when teams schedule one of their weaker opponents. Teams tailor their schedules in the hope that a blowout win in front of the alums will amplify the explosion of school spirit on campus. Every team has to schedule someone for homecoming, and there’s no disrespect intended toward the opponent. But if you ask a team that’s ended up on the wrong side of a few too many homecoming games, you might hear a different story. Duke has been scheduled for multiple homecoming games on the road in three of head coach David Cutcliffe’s first six seasons in Durham. During the current senior class’ first season in 2011, the Blue Devils played on homecoming weekend at Boston College, Florida International and Miami. They turned around and played homecoming games at Virginia Tech and Florida State the next season. That group hasn’t forgotten what it feels like to have their roadtrips feel like a homecoming tour. “It sucked,” starting quarterback Anthony Boone said. “We were everybody’s homecoming.” When the Blue Devils host Virginia Saturday, it will mark the first time Duke has played an ACC opponent for a homecoming game since 2008. Fans and alumni in attendance will be treated to a competitive game between two teams that have played a number of tight and chippy contests in the past decade. But more importantly, the matchup represents a significant milestone for a program that seems to be running out of famous firsts—Duke finally feels confident enough to schedule a conference game for a weekend typically reserved for weaker nonconference opponents. Duke’s last five homecoming opponents—Troy, Memphis, Tulane,

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Brian Pollack Beat Writer The Blue Devils have 13 freshmen on their roster this year, each with their own unique background and upbringing, but Markus Fjortoft’s story might just top them all. Fjortoft was born in Swindon, England but spent most of his childhood in Norway and went to WANG Toppidrett High School in Asker, Norway. Playing soccer was in Fjortoft’s blood; his father, Jan Age Fjortoft, had a decorated professional career and started for the Norwegian national team in the 1994 World Cup. The elder Fjortoft tallied 20 goals in 71 international

appearances, and also enjoyed a stint in the English Premier League. Markus realizes his passion for the beautiful game is no coincidence given his father’s background—anyone whose dad is an international soccer star is bound be pretty adept with the ball at his feet. Yet he commends his father for never forcing the game upon him or being overly demanding, but instead acting as any parent would, albeit one with an expert-level knowledge of the game and its nuances. “Often many people become a product of what their parents have been. Naturally I got into soccer because of my dad,” Fjortoft said. “I was born abroad in England because he played there, and I was presented to the game early on. My dad has helped me, but

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Fjortoft grew up watching his father play professionally in England before moving on to the prestigious Baerum Sportsklubb of Adeccoligane, where he drew the attention of Duke head coach John Kerr.

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Duke falls in overtime to Davidson for first home loss Seth Johnson Staff Writer The reliable magic of Koskinen Stadium came to a heartbreaking end Tuesday night. Despite a strong effort by the Blue Devil attack, Davidson clawed a victory away from 2 Duke in overtime DAV 2-1. The loss was the DUKE 1 first of the season at home for Duke, and the third consecutive in the month of October. “It’s a disappointing loss for us,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “For about 50, 60 minutes of the game I thought we did very, very well. We started slow, traditionally as we do, then we picked it up after we scored. We picked up our confidence and all of a sudden we are firing on all cylinders and [it’s] unfortunate that we didn’t get that elusive second goal.” Throughout the first 25 minutes of the first half, the Wildcats (6-1-3) looked like they would take control of the match. Although play appeared slow and deliberate for both teams, Davidson was able to possess and stretch the back third of Duke (5-6-1), forcing goalkeeper Joe Ohaus to make two early saves to keep the game knotted at zero. Despite a slow start to a half that did not see much movement from the front third of the Blue Devil attack, Duke was able to go into the locker room up 1-0 thanks to a beautiful cross by freshman Markus Fjortoft that was guided into the goal off the head of Matt Slotnick

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Senior Matt Slotnick netted the Blue Devils’ sole goal in Tuesday’s overtime loss to Davidson.

with 12:52 remaining in the first half. Slotnick had entered the game in the 27th minute, providing a much needed boost for a sluggish Blue Devil offense. Duke was able to get five shots off in the period—all of them coming after the Slotnick substitution—whereas Davidson registered six. “We felt confident,” Ohaus said. “We’ve been a second half team all year. Most of the time we’ve been going into halftime down a couple of goals—one goal—so it felt good going in up one.” The second half started with a much faster pace from both teams. The Blue Devils took advantage of several early opportunities to

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stretch the Davidson defense—firing three shots within the first six minutes. Crisp passing also kept the Blue Devils at what appeared to be an early advantage. Davidson did not just roll over and give up the game, though, as it began to apply more pressure to the Duke defense as the second half unfolded. A key opportunity for the Wildcats came with 26:50 remaining, but sophomore Maxi Pragnell’s shot clanged off the right post just out of Ohaus’ reach. Unfortunately for Duke, it would not be the last opportunity for the Davidson offense. With 19:41 remaining, a costly yellow card by Blue Devil freshman Bryson Asher at the

top of the box allowed Davidson to line up a penalty kick from Shane MacNamara. Despite a diving effort, Ohaus was not able to keep it out of the net, and the score was evened at 1-1. “[With penalty kicks] there is not too much pressure on the goalie, you’re not really expected to save it,” Ohaus said. “[In] a tight game like that, [there] is always a little bit of pressure.” The aggression from both teams in the second portion of the game seemed indicative of the way they have played all season. The Duke offense—which has scored 16 of its 21 goals in the second half—managed 12 shots throughout the period, and added eight fouls with two yellow cards. Davidson—which has scored 13 of its 15 regulation goals in the second half—added 10 shots in the second period to go along with five fouls. The aggressive attack from both teams would not result in another goal in the first 90 minutes, however, and regulation would come to an end knotted at 1-1. Prior to Tuesday’s contest, neither team had been able to pull out a win in overtime this season. Duke had been to overtime once, ending in a 1-1 draw against Loyola Marymount. Davidson also entered with some extra time experience, as matchups against both Valparaiso and Saint Louis ended in scoreless draws. As overtime began, the Blue Devils looked like the more prepared team. An early See M. Soccer on Page 13

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breakaway in the fourth minute of overtime led to a Duke corner after the ball sailed over the goal line. Despite a solid cross by Nick Palodichuk on the ensuing play, Davidson goalkeeper Matt Pacifici—who managed seven saves on the night—caught the ball midair to prevent any further opportunities by the Blue Devils. “We had the better chances in the overtime period to finish it off and we didn’t,” Kerr said. “It’s a cruel game sometimes.” On the next Davidson advance, a solid strike by midfielder Alan Reiter would prove devastating for the home faithful. In the fifth minute of overtime, Reiter was able to move the ball to the top of the box and line up a shot from 15 yards out—flying toward

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Sí, se puede! Today marks the end of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month—a month dedicated to celebrating the rich culture, history and accomplishments of Latinos. At Duke, the Latino student population is on the rise—this year, a record 10 percent of the Class of 2018 is Hispanic, as compared to 7 percent last year. Yet, issues of integration and diversity persist. Today, we turn to the state of Latino diversity at Duke. In an effort to raise awareness of Duke’s rich Latino culture during Hispanic Heritage Month, Mi Gente, Duke’s Latino student association, hosted many diverse and interesting events. Examples include a Monday Motivations event about border crossings by undocumented children, a speech by Dr. Ramon Resa, who shared the struggles of his beginnings as an oppressed farmworker and his pursuit of a career as a doctor, and Latin Night at the Loop, which included a night of lively dancing to Latin music. These events, however, were poorly attended and attracted a particular crowd of students that were not representative of Duke’s general population. Such lack of attendance raises deeper questions about why students tend not to attend cultural events. We raise two possible reasons: First is the

issue of identity. Students may hesitate to attend events where they might be the “only” Asian or white individual in a predominantly Latino group. Yet, these fears of being the “only one” should be set aside for the unique opportunity to learn about diverse cultures beyond the classroom walls. All

Editorial students share the responsibility of partaking in conversations about cultural and social justice issues and should attend events that celebrate diversity. Student may also be deterred from attending cultural events because of assumptions regarding the hosting group’s ideological positions. Speaker events hosted by Mi Gente, for example, may be assumed to advocate a single-minded, proimmigration perspective, which can deter participation by students of differing opinions. Yet, herein lies a tension between two central missions of these clubs and events: advocating issues and raising awareness. If students do not attend events because of perceived advocacy positions, then the goal of raising awareness is stymied. By attracting and repelling specific groups of students, these

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n recent days, I’ve taken to blowing bubbles as a pastime. The exercise has taught me that children are onto something—the meaning of life, maybe—in their passion for those beautiful spherical ephemeral beasts, something that we all lose as we get older and then have to relearn in new and harder ways. You see, bubbles are a vaccine against the grief of loss. Too often, I’ve blown a bubble whose oscillatory wobblings I particularly liked only to have it pop in my face before I could fully appreciate it. With bubbles, though, the pain of loss is common enough and mild enough that it’s easy to develop healthy ways of dealing with it. It’s not that they become more beautiful because of their short lives—it’s rather that you learn to come away from the experience with the

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advocacy-based events self-select and limit their reach to the student body. To overcome this problem of self-selection to events, multicultural clubs should add more educational panel-based discussions and debates to their repertoire of events. These debates would present multiple perspectives on an issue—and include, for example, a pro-immigration advocate sparring with an anti-immigration advocate— from which students may learn and form their own opinions. That said, such educational debates should, by no means, replace important events that advocate a belief shared among a community. Striking a balance between educational and informative events would attract a larger and more diverse audience. As students navigate the broad range of cultural diversity on campus, fears of being the “only one” of a certain identity should not deter learning. Instead, students should reflect on what they hope to gain from their college experience and take advantage of the unique opportunities Duke has to offer—even those hidden within the Center for Multicultural Affairs or the Black Student Alliance’s office. As our very own Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta have told us: “Sí, se puede!”

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obligations it proposes. I don’t disagree in principle, but I think people who hold this view have an overly conservative account of human nature. To begin with, humans are incredibly flexible, and we’re capable of using our brains to modulate our behavior, even though some aspects of our behavior are hard-coded into us. For example, bubble blowing or, more seriously, other forms of therapy can help us to handle loss in ways that are productive instead of self-destructive. Another still more serious example is that we realize that a “boys will be boys” justification of rape culture isn’t acceptable— we have control of our decisions and behavior above and beyond the instinctual. Another aspect of the “human nature as a constraint” theory that’s lacking is that it forgets the significant cultural aspect of human nature. For

Eugene Rabinovich ARE WE THERE YET? feeling of something gained, not something lost. You realize that, no matter how short the fates declare the experience to be, you get to appreciate something worthwhile and the pain of loss is counterproductive to this enterprise. That’s why I think bubbles are like a vaccine—they infect you with a weaker version of a particular pain so that you learn how to handle it more readily. The lessons of bubble blowing are easily transferred—at least in principle—to other aspects of life, though in more serious cases you run up against what I consider the paradox of loss, which is the idea that when we feel pain at losing something, it’s because the thing—or person— we lost made our lives better. Rarely, however, do we approach the loss appreciating that we were lucky to have had such a thing or person in our lives. The paradox is deepened by the fact that the longer we have something or someone before we lose him or her or it, the deeper the pain is, though we have more to be grateful for. If we think of this in the light of evolution, it makes more sense, though it highlights the most regrettable feature of natural selection—the fact that it makes us good at survival, not happiness. This, to me, is probably the most compelling reason that “human nature” ought to be fought against. Very often, I’ve heard talk about “human nature” as a constraint on our ethical theories. Proponents of this idea (e.g., the January 2013 New York Times column by Stephen Asma) argue that an ethical theory ought to take into serious account the feasibility of the moral

example, we may have an inclination for tribalism, but that doesn’t mean racism is inevitable. Indeed, in the last 60 years or so, we’ve managed to restructure our society in a way that many fewer people derive pleasure from the unjustified hatred of others on the basis of their race. The point is that what we perceive as “human nature” is largely environment-dependent and that our collective decision-making apparatus can create an environment more or less favorable to the manifestation of certain aspects of “human nature.” Bubble blowing is kind of a silly example, but it has definitely made an important contribution to the way I handle loss, and I think a lot of us can find similarly helpful ways to deal with the supposedly immutable but lamentably counterproductive aspects of our “nature.” And what works on a micro scale can be applied on a macro scale to much greater effect. We can structure our social, economic, political and cultural institutions to bring out various aspects of our supposed nature in a way that hopefully attenuates its undesirable features. Sure, there are fundamental limitations on what we can do—an ethical theory that proposes unaided human flight as the fundamental moral obligation of all life is rightfully reproached on feasibility lines. But what I hope to make clear is that evolution isn’t as fundamental a constraint as some would have it. The secret, as luck would have it, lies in the whimsy of bubble blowing. Eugene Rabinovich is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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I don’t think I know enough to vote! How could anybody know about all of this stuff?” My grandma said that to me while I was home for fall break. I, like most people, think that voters can and should try to learn about the issues and candidates in any election before they vote. I usually consider myself one of these well-informed voters. But it’s true that every article I read about ISIS or Ebola makes references to things I’ve never heard of before. To Wikipedia! As I watched a debate for the U.S. Senate seat in my home state of Iowa, I was thankful that I had my laptop open right beside me to google the policies and bills that came up, many of which I didn’t recognize. I have definitely asked the same question—“How could anybody know about all of this stuff?”

more than anything right now. What else can explain a Senate that has used the filibuster to block legislation more than any other in American history? But what do we really mean when we talk about “values?” Simply put, values are the things we care about. Most Americans share the same values if you write them broadly enough. Take the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It summarizes the core values at work in the text—justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, general welfare and the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. What American doesn’t want to promote the general welfare? Find me the person that doesn’t want to establish justice or secure freedom for ourselves and our children. Let’s be honest—whether you identify

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hey say that just by looking at an object you can faintly hear the echoes of its past whispering to you in the present. While studying abroad in London this semester, I’ve spent hours in city museums listening for these voices, gazing through the glass windows at Constable paintings, Handel transcriptions and Shakespeare manuscripts to catch even a murmur of the rich stories they have to tell. But something disturbs me as I behold the majesty of the Parthenon exhibit at the British Museum. It’s the silence. Before me stand the immortal gods and heroes of Classical antiquity, yet their presence dwindles as they’re dragged down from Olympus to stagnate in a confined, artificial space. Like people, artifacts speak to us in the languages of their own historical contexts—perhaps, then, the conversation stops because their stories, to borrow from “Julius Caesar,” are Greek to us. Not surprisingly, a modern British imitation of ancient Athens can serve only to simulate, but not to recreate, a reality that never existed in London.

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The great thing about a representative democracy is that we don’t have to know everything in order to participate. Because we aren’t a direct democracy, we don’t—usually— vote on policies or laws themselves. Rather than voting for policies, we vote for people whom we empower to make laws on our behalf. In order for a system like that to work, though, we have to think less about specifics. A candidate’s voting record from the House floor, for instance, is a product of the specific circumstances in which each of those votes took place. While it might give us some indication of how an incumbent has performed on the job in the past, it doesn’t necessarily predict how he or she will perform in the future. Something like a voting record or a list of policy positions tells us about the candidate’s actions in certain circumstances that are subject to change—but dissecting it to death doesn’t necessarily tell us what the candidate’s values are. Since we vote for people and not policies, perhaps we should be more concerned with the core values that will shape a candidate’s actions if elected. On the other hand, I’m a practical Midwesterner—abstract language about “values” often obscures the need for practical solutions to our problems. I really don’t do well with ideologues who cling to their values as if they are immutable rules that must be defended to the death. I’m frustrated by congressmen and senators that can’t seem to think or act outside the confines of their own convictions in order to fulfill their constitutional obligation to the American people. This kind of thinking can shut down the government—it literally has a couple of times. Practically any candidate that has demonstrated a real willingness to cross ideological lines to get things done can win my support. The ability to compromise is probably what our senators and representatives lack

as a conservative or a liberal, Democrat or Republican, progressive or moderate—these core values are the same. Our failure as a country has been to buy into the delusional belief that we hold fundamentally different value systems that cannot be reconciled. Our government is beginning to feel like an arena—our politics are a duel to the death between completely antagonistic value systems. The American people have been caught in the middle of it all, and we’ll continue to suffer unless we change our mindset. We have fundamental disagreements, that’s for sure. But liberals and conservatives don’t really envision different worlds. We disagree less about the what and more about the how. We all want a strong and equitable economy, but how do we get there? Conservatives and liberals have been offering different answers to that question for a long time, especially now as we are recovering from the 2008 Recession. We all want people to have access to healthcare, but how can the government best ensure that that happens? Is the Affordable Care Act the right way? There is a real debate to be had there, with legitimate cases to be made on both sides. In this midterm election, we need to keep our differences in perspective. No matter how we distinguish ourselves, we share the same core values. Our elected officials need to act like it and start working putting those shared values to work. And we, as voters, need to think honestly about the things we all value. In this election season, think about what you as an American value and ask, “How do I think we can get there?” You don’t have to know everything, but let’s be s ure we can answer that question before we fill out our ballots.

At times I get the same feeling back at Duke, when I wonder what kind of discourse our institution communicates simply by the way it appears. Gorgeous edifices of Gothic architecture gild our academic buildings in auras of age and wisdom, reminiscent of late medieval and Renaissance scholasticism. Our lecture halls resemble Classical amphitheaters, and seminar instruction borrows directly from didactic methods of Socrates. Even our linguistic architecture tries to breathe the same air as that of our ancestors—normalized Latin phrases such as “alumni,” “cum laude” and “Eruditio et Religio” continually pervade our dialogue on campus. But the preservation of these Classical traditions doesn’t mean that they are still in fact alive. Do they speak? Do their voices still sing the songs of old? Or are they simply trophies on a wall, products of an academic taxidermy that tries to resuscitate a past that has long been dead? There’s a reason for this nostalgia. The purpose of a college campus manifests itself in two different planes—to serve not only as an intellectual space for education, but also as a physical space, built to materialize and preserve a collective cultural past. Universities aren’t just institutional abstractions—they’re designed to exist in the corporeal realm as tangible, visible stamps upon the surface of the earth. In a society filled with rapid change, college campuses embody marks of permanence, anchoring us through physical memorials to the rich historical traditions shared among their members. Put another way, the architecture of Duke is not just Gothic—it is exhibitory, departmental and preservationist. Our university is a museum. As college students, whether we realize it or not, our words are not entirely our own—our actions are actually reactions. Every day we participate in dialogues rooted fundamentally to a larger discourse that has existed for centuries before us. Processions such as Convocation and the Alma Mater aren’t simply empty performances—they’re attempts to ceremonially reimagine and relive the pantheon of our institution’s academic achievements. They consecrate our campus identity by reminding students of their shared membership in the collective school memory. In this manner, physically manifesting our common narratives of past triumph grants concrete power to an otherwise abstract notion of identity. Of course, as with any design, this campus architecture has its flaws. Museums are organized in a taxonomical system—the Latin American exhibits on one end, the South Asian exhibits on the other, etc. Our universities have thus followed suit, separating departments like philosophy from mathematics, neuroscience from anthropology. Unknowingly, we have reinforced the myth that such disciplines exist within distinct and isolated spheres from one another. Though departments may now collaborate under the guise of “interdisciplinarity,” our critical thinking is still stifled by the difficulty of crossing these imaginary boundaries. But more profoundly, the museum model dangerously creates confusion between what is real and what is made to imitate the real. Too often we assume the college campus to be a perfect microcosm of society. But while the carefully preserved university remains rooted to old traditions, society continually reshapes itself to the point where the world and the campus begin to diverge into separate dimensions— one real, the other imagined. This disparity has engendered what Jean Baudrillard calls a “hyperreality,” an imitation that overpowers the original subject and supplants it in our minds as the new reality. When we conflate our simulated experiences in college with the issues existing out in the real world, we find to our dismay that the solutions that always worked in our economics or sociology classes no longer apply outside of the University. How then can we free ourselves of this estrangement from both past and present? I believe we each possess the power to determine what is real and what is imitation in our lives. It means stepping out of the shadows of our ancestors and seeing the light with our own eyes. It means preserving the past wholly and strategically, being careful to remember the entire story and not to leave out crucial details. If we strive to think for ourselves, maybe we can learn to preserve the past without fetishizing it and thereby see the difference between light and shadow— between reality and hyperreality. Universities have long served as memorials for the past—let’s now make ours into a beacon for the future.

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At that point, all that was left was for Fjortoft to make sure that Duke was a good fit for him on both a personal and athletic level. He came to visit Durham in February, where Kerr showed him around the facilities and introduced him to the rest of the staff. During the search for a college, Fjortoft placed an emphasis on academics and culture as well as athletics. For him, it was quickly apparent that Duke balanced all of these aspects, making it any easy decision for him to don the blue and white. “I came here in February and I met Coach Kerr and Coach Brady, they showed me around, which was great. They came down to Spain and watched me on my training camp with my team,” Fjortoft said. “When I looked into the opportunity of going to college, I was so impressed by how well integrated the athletic, social, and academic aspects of Duke was.” Fjortoft has adjusted seamlessly to American soccer and life at Duke, aside from jokes from his teammates about his distinctly European fashion style. Fjortoft has earned a place in the starting lineup in each of the Blue Devils’ first 12 games, and although the fast pace and physical nature of ACC soccer initially took him by surprise—Fjortoft admitted that he’s “never been more tired” than after his first few games in a Blue Devil uniform—he credits the captains and upperclassmen for helping him with the transition and making him feel welcome. With roughly two months at Duke under his belt, Fjortoft had no trouble picking out a defining moment for his time here. After participating in the storied Tobacco Road rivalry for the first time—and helping the Blue Devils to a 2-1 upset of the then-No. 1 Tar Heels—Fjortoft feels as if he’s really found a second home here in Durham. “I’ve never had as much of an adrenaline rush during a soccer game as I did against UNC,” Fjortoft said. “The fact that we turned it around against UNC, who was ranked No. 1, it was just that those are moments you live for, because you get that adrenaline rush, and it was indescribable… The college experience has definitely been up to what I expected and more so, it’s just been great. Honestly, I feel so much at home here.”

Army and N.C. Central—were far from national powerhouses. Between 1975 and 2008, the Blue Devils had scheduled nonconference opponents for homecoming weekend just four times. But even though it meant straying from its tradition of playing a conference game, scheduling weaker opponents for homecoming made a lot of sense for what Duke needed at that time. Five years ago, Duke was much more concerned with making an elusive bowl appearance and creating a football culture on campus than it was competing for conference championships. The program was also making a fundraising push for some much-needed facilities improvements. A blowout win on homecoming weekend—whether it came against Alabama or Alabama A&M—was the easiest way to accomplish both of those goals. Duke could inch one win closer to a bowl game while treating its alumni base to more victories in one weekend than they may have seen during their entire four years in Durham. Happy alumni are more likely to donate to the University, especially to the optimistic head coach spearheading their program’s rebuilding effort. Everybody wins. The Blue Devils don’t have to think like that anymore. Duke is solidifying itself as a perennial contender in a Power Five conference and has earned the right to schedule with that sort of confidence, just like all the teams who have scheduled them in hopes of an easy win during the last five seasons. When alums head to Wallace Wade to see the Blue Devils this weekend, many might not recognize what they see on the field. Some may not have seen many good football games when they were in college—others may not have seen any games at all. Saturday’s game won’t be for any championships, but it serves as an important stepping stone for Duke toward continuing to establish its legitimacy among the rest of college football’s top programs. Another indicator of that—people seem to have forgotten that

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the 5-1 Blue Devils can clinch bowl eligibility with a win Saturday, marking the third straight season Duke has made the postseason (which has never happened before). Ultimately, what the Blue Devils are seeking is normalcy. A time when victories both large and small stop becoming a headline and fade into a part of the larger story—when Duke can schedule a conference opponent for homecoming every year and be favored by oddsmakers when it plays on the road and milestones don’t mark the first occurrence in 20 years. The big steps toward normalcy have already been taken, but don’t lose the symbolism of the smaller ones.

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Homecoming 2014 October 17-18

www.Homecoming.DukeAlumni.com FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 4-6 p.m.

Blue Devil Pep Rally

The cheerleaders are ready, the band is all warmed up, and Coach Cut is ready for his boys to “rip ‘em up, tear ‘em up, give ‘em [‘heck’] Duke!” Make sure you’re part of the official #DukeGang that comes out to show love for the Blue Devils! [ Bryan Center Plaza, West Campus ]

8–9:30 p.m.

The Graduate School Reception [ Kirby Horton Hall and Patio, Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens ]

9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

President Brodhead’s Homecoming Dance [ Wilson Gym Basketball Courts & huge tent on K-ville Quad ]

9:30 p.m. n Duke Chinese Dance Troupe n Duke Bhangra n Sabrosura 11:00 p.m. n Duke Swing n Momentum n Defining Movement (DefMo)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 12:30 p.m.

Duke Football vs. University of Virginia Homecoming Game 2014 [ Wallace Wade Stadium ] Cheer the Blue Devils to victory as the team takes on the University of Virginia’s Cavaliers in Wallace Wade Stadium.